Waiting: A Novel pop songbook and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is

and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York

resting her head on her mother's bloody breast

the girls don’t always end up getting married and settling down

For one thing

Coudert explores themes of independence

Waiting: A Novel pop songbook and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray isIn Waiting, award winning author Ha Jin brings to life a haunting story set in Northeastern China between 1963 and 1985. Army doctor Lin Kong is caught between his dutiful wife Shuyu, whom he never truly loved, and his desire to divorce her so he can marry Manna Wu, a nurse he genuinely cares for. Year after year he waits for a divorce, for love, for freedom while the world around him changes under the weight of social upheaval and political